Anyone do a "Honeymoon" a full month later after wedding???!

So FI and I are torn on what to do for our honeymoon, if we go immediately after the wedding we would only have 2-3 days maximum before both of us would need to be back at work, my schedule is more flexible then FIs, (FI farms, and they thought they were going to hire custom cutters to do the corn harvest next year, but they had some large repairs and have decided to do it themselves, and FI really loves to run the combine! I worried about interrupting work for our wedding but FI really REALLY wanted a fall wedding!)

But If we go during November (roughly a month after our wedding) we would have 1 full week that we could use for the honeymoon….my honey and I would be able to take more time from work…and the trips we are looking at would be just a bit cheaper because they are out of peak season….

So what do you ladies think?? We are still debating on the WHERE of the honeymoon, but we are really leaning to the delaying it so we have a decent amount of time to just de-stress, we are taking 3 days after the wedding before we go back to work….

@kansas_nurse: We get married on August 2nd. We’re staying at the hotel the night of and the night after the wedding, but we don’t go on honeymoon until October 6th due to the cost: we get way more ‘bang for our buck’ if we travel outside the school holidays in the UK.

@Treejewel19: We are 90% sure we are going somewhere tropical…..everywhere we have looked has been a friendly place that is warm year round pretty much….Jamacia, and the Bahamas are in the top of what we are considering!

@barbie86: Thats what we are hoping, that we can get a better deal because it would be first or second week of November, so we can be home for Thanksgiving….

@Kir32: I feel ya im in online graduate school so atleast i can work from where ever….ut my advisor said close i should be ok…..if its like a week, and i can get it done before we leave…..

Nothing wrong with waiting to have the honeymoon of your dreams ! We were married in March (over my spring break I am a teacher) and because we wanted a 2 week honeymoon we waiting until the end of June to go. We spent our 3 month anniversary on our honeymoon and honestly if I had it to do all over again I would do it the same. After the wedding was over we still had something amazing to look forward too. Plus it gave us a couple months to save some more money to be able to do more while on the trip. 🙂

We’re getting married in November and waiting on the honeymoon until January. We’re getting married about a week before thanksgiving so we’d like to stay in town throughout the holidays and then go away after all the craziness is over! So I think there is absolutely nothing wrong with it!

@kansas_nurse: So… I was involved or attended 7 weddings between June 20th and September 7th of this year. The 8th wedding was my own (a few weeks ago). My best friends were involved in a few of them as well, and they also got married Sept 6th. Guess where they are right now? Belize. On their honeymoon. They left a few days after *our* wedding. I wish we’d waited a week or two honestly. We left 2 days after the wedding and I was still completely exhausted..

The more i think about it the better a delay is sounding….there will be so much to do after the wedding…(getting my name changed, putting all the wedding stuff and gifts away, saying good bye to some dearly loved family and friends as they make their trips home who we dont see nearly as often as we would like….packing the wedding stuff away….) im really thinking about this so we get a “real” honeymoon not just a few nights away….

Our honeymoon was 3.5 months after our wedding. It was so much more enjoyable as we could a) afford a lot more by waiting out the expense of the wedding and b) because it gave us something to look forward to after the excitement of the wedding wore off.

Just a tip, if you’re booking your trip before your married, watch changing your name. I booked our honeymoon in my maiden name then changed my name. My new id didn’t match the travel tickets so I had to change my name back to my maiden name and then change it back to my married name after.

My husband & I waited a full year and a half before going on our honeymoon. I don’t understand all the fuss about going on a trip IMMEDIATELY after getting hitched. Weddings are stressful enough; planning a trip & having to travel right after seems like a lot of extra work!

@LyndzJM: mmm good point hadnt even thought of that!! I will have to talk to FI about how to handle that….cuz you get SWEET discounts booking early….but by the time we will be married i will have been waiting 7 1/2 years to marry him and am incredibly excited to change my name….of course i have no idea how long it takes to change your last name once married…so maybe i should check into that!